I'm new in this forum, sorry if this topic already have come out.
I've been wondering if Reaktor is sounding worse then Clavia Nord Modular or what is the difference in sound?? Is Nord's sound brighter?? How about analog emulations.

Have anyone heared of that video tutorial about reaktor( like Absynth one) it was supposed to be relised this year I gues.

Hi KM, welcome to electro-music.com , can't help you directly with your question but typed "reaktor AND nm" into the search engine here, there must be something usefull in that, somewhere :-)_________________Jan

interesting question, a bit late from my side, but both are good. But for the Reaktor you need to have a high quality sound card. The DA-converters on the Nord are already okay, but with softsynths you need to have those perfect DA-converters too.

my opinion is that i can easier use distortion without maxing out in reaktor, tough i haven't made all posible routings on the nord modular g2 yet. I noticed that the nord envelopes are more sharp and very natural. the filters also have a different but more "crispy sound" as the nord makers say.

I've created a modular synth in reaktor wich has an overal usage of 30% cpu on 48khz with a dualcore amd. on 96khz it can rise to 70% so thats what makes reaktor a thumb down.

furthermore you will encounter lots of problems in reaktor with sequencer routings, mono and polyfonic routings, and specific routing orders wich work best or not at all in the trigger sections. Also mathemetic modules makes things more difficult but also more realistic. I haven't got the brains to create Core modules but that way you maybe might safe cpu or just comsume even more. I fixed all problems myself in the psycologic wich occured with complex routing. There was nothing to be found on the native instruments website wich could help me solve this unless i shared this instrument. And that was not exactly my plan after a year of work.

I have some preset preview demo's
these are from the early beta stage, the new preset demo's are yet to be made.

I think reaktor has a lot of advantage but also disadvantage, thats why both really is something to combine

Pitch Mod (Route Osc pitch to the Modulation Index)
FM Source (Route an audio signal according to the Audio Routing Index to the FM input)
Sampler: Can be used with loop functions if turned on in the reaktor sampler settings,
has start position control, Loop Start, Loop Length.
Volume Control, Octave, Semi, Fine, Unison Spread (-12/+12, can be routed to the Modulation Index) PWM and FM can

also be routed to the Modulation Index
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OSC 2, 3 and 4 holds the same functions except "Wave"

4x AMP ENVELOPE ADSR
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each with clock synced delay
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4x MiXER
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Sat Distortion and lo, mid, hi EQ
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4x ANALOG ENV MOD
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ADSR can be modulated (modulation index can be found below). Single Trigger function, route ENVELOPE SEQUENCER out

to analog envelope in.
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2x MOD ENV POINT STEP ENVELOPE
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Can set multiple envelope points. Can be synced to internal BPM or DAW Master Clock BPM. And also route ENVELOPE

Mix, Keytracking, Glide.
Cutoff can be routed to the Modulation index.
Each filter has 1 Audio input (Routing according to the Audio Routing Index)
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SHAPER
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Sine
Soft
Hard
Virus
XP1
XP2
XP3
XP4
XP5

Shape amount can be routed to the Modulation Index.
Has 1 Audio input (Routing according to the Audio Routing Index)
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GLOBAL
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Volume
Semi
Fine
Pitch can be routed to the Modulation Index
Split, Exclude OUTPUT 1/2
Bend Range (can also be routed to the Modulation Index)
Cutoff (controls all filter cutoff, can also be routed to the Modulation Index)
Resonance (controls all filter res, can also be routed to the Modulation Index)
Detune (controles unison de tune -1/+1)
Release (controles all envelope release except for the pointstep envelope, can also be routed to the Modulation

Index)
Glide (controles overal glide on filter and pitch, can be routed to the Modulation Index)
Modwheel (sends cc01, or can be used in the modulation index)
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tnx Ill defo make some new preset demo's today couse the latest version i made had affected a lot of snapshots and i had to rebuild 127 new presets. There seems to be a lot of interrest, i dont think this is a topic to promote for selling :p but you can pm me for that.

So i hope you can hear the difference with reaktor and nord, couse in some points of view my nord g2 still lacks dsp processing.. I need a Expansion for the g2 but it's hard to find here in holland.. Tell me if anyone has a spare one pls!

it will never be in the user library, or free download :p I will introduce this synth on my website as soon as possible when the interface, documentation and manual is ready. then it can be bought with paypal. (you dont pay for the modules but for the presets, functionality and posibilities on a artist point of view created synth)

i do this becouse it took me lots of work, and all presets are a lot better then most standard hardware presets like on the access virus. Of course not everyone likes rough sounds or heavy detuned and distorted sounds but its all there from Flute to hardcore lead. Arp sequences some noodle like stuff, Dreamkeys , elec piano's and movie FX. And some snapshots(presets) are very difficult to achieve with the nord modular.

I hope you will pay some money to the authors of all the ensembles that you have learnt from or pillaged?

if thats possible sure but you can't expect that anyone who i learn from to be payed.. and thats exactly the other way around. I spend hours helping people every day i don't always need something in return. and becides im not a huge buisness and then it would be a total different story. Lots of people just pass on when they see reaktor, so don't expect it to be very popular.

everyone needs to begin learning somewhere, there are also books and mostly as i said i figured things out myself. But indeed there are some modules and fx here and there wich i rebuilded or adjusted to get things working properly. 95% is self designed. And still im trying to reduce the other 5% but that just takes time.

Seems a little against the Reaktor ethos that, I hope you will pay some money to the authors of all the ensembles that you have learnt from or pillaged?

I don't think people care really. There are as many "for sale" synths as there are free ones and not necessarily a difference in quality in either direction IMO.

Personally I haven't seen anything yet that's worth paying for. Reaktor is fantastic for creating YOUR synth but that pretty much demands that you do it yourself.

What might be worth paying for is a really well thought out library of small scale instruments.

I've used the Nord Modular to build live rigs for some time and while it's very quick to edit patches it's missing much of the nested behavior that's in reaktor. If you want a modular that feels like an analog modular but has the advantages of digital then the nord is a good way to go. If, on the other hand, you want to build your own synths with interfaces that suit how you play the nord doesn't provide anywhere near the abstraction capabilities that Reaktor does.

After reading this topic again, i've decided to post the synth ensemble.
You need an up to date pc to run this ensemble.

Furthermore i've noticed as vsti i can load 4 instances without much more cpu load.
That's probably because i'm using a quadcore and each reaktor instance you load can only process on 1 processor. Meaning if you load 4 instances with the same preset the DAW cpu stays the same as the 1st reaktor instance.

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